Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 70d6e2972783ae84…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.0 KB Created: 2021-06-30 10:08:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 3755cf1676508bd7a4ecc042fa387310 SHA-1: 384d0b0a33e557d49da4e4dab257cf15bb9653df SHA-256: 70d6e2972783ae8499799d89f529abebe587f96350460b8e445cfa9e779527df
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to external resources, many hosted on disposable domains or compromised CMS uploads. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, suggesting an attempt to hide its true purpose.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL http://paillasse.hu/userfiles/file/72241671061.pdf
    • http://bettaletroom.com/file_media/file_image/file/wesezexofifokuguxajil.pdf
    • http://tz5168.com/uploadfile/image/2021/05/20/file/20210520_025420_166.pdf
    • https://www.infratechgroep.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6c573730a014a4adf26857ae24f9ed55/31453973432.pdf
    • http://elitvorota.ru/f/file/suninagu.pdf
    • https://www.ayersworthglen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085f939973a9---75096611703.pdf
    • https://angkoronetour.com/userfiles/file/47898250859.pdf
    • http://3e-recycling.ru/app/webroot/filesfiles/zinapagefuborejinatab.pdf
    • https://gamasteel.net/userfiles/file/87499573857.pdf
    • http://uyaviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b0c4ab92ce---50955497964.pdf
    • http://cupta.org/userfiles/files/20210528000112.pdf
    • https://www.jahnigterbraak.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a585257840c---69874542957.pdf
    • https://cgeminfos.ma/upload/file/rolabovupexe.pdf
    • http://myphamasia.net/upload/files/46214779245.pdf
    • https://www.oneirishrover.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5f8d77b1fe825b5643fea1ec9cfb177c/19024176921.pdf
    • https://searchlink.org/userfiles//file/52547999964.pdf
    • https://www.shopveriamici.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/02snc32is340u94su4brk5914i/72713359895.pdf
    • http://www.airportlimofortlauderdale.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b168c86acfb---86271122090.pdf
    • http://www.medicalalliedtraining.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160892273d6aef---buferetejuramuropukaz.pdf
    • http://jrmhandling.nl/upload/file/duwinesejogifimatanegojut.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=best+country+songs
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000bed9.bin
68cbc58a90ebacdbfb2146dfd391423690f8f59dddb27b781fbdae435ed4a775
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBED9 10372 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000d68c.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD68C 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000ee9e.bin
2fa8d684b33b83b575ac7b5ea0545de6c2360d8d0055377f93257b512dd3d3b9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE9E 16628 bytes